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Picasso's Blue Period Picasso's Blue Period — , characterized by sombre paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colours, began either in Spain in early , or in Paris in the second half of the year. In his austere use of colour and sometimes doleful subject matter — prostitutes and beggars are frequent subjects — Picasso was influenced by a trip through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. Starting in autumn of he painted several posthumous portraits of Casagemas, culminating in the gloomy allegorical painting La Vie , now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Blindness is a recurrent theme in Picasso's works of this period, also represented in The Blindman's Meal , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the portrait of Celestina The Rose Period — [27] is characterized by a lighter tone and style utilizing orange and pink colours, and featuring many circus people, acrobats and harlequins known in France as saltimbanques.